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don't totty don't come. leaders of the world's top industrialized nations and throw their weight behind greece staying in the usa as speculation mounts that it's just damage control and that a very different freight is being mapped out for athens. world leaders arrive in chicago for the nato summit and the city welcoming them with thousand strong protests and reports of heavy handed police reaction. and the u.s. resumes on sales to bahrain amid concerns that they'll be used to further the crackdown and growing demonstrations fueled by the ruling families plans for unity with saudi arabia.
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you're watching artie's week you with me to bomb would say let's take a look at the stories that have been making headlines at this week debt stricken greece should stay in the euro zone that's the united message from the leaders of the world's most powerful economies after a day of classes talks in the u.s. athens dominated the g eight gathering amid fears it may be headed for a chaotic and unprecedented exit from the single currency bloc however some believe that talks behind closed doors suggested a different agenda for the troubled nation and he said now has the details camp david was invaded by the europeans over the weekend or at least it seemed that way with almost all ga talk touching the rural zone. there were new faces of focus was on a not so new and ever growing crisis and the million dollar question of good grief speak current mood and leave the eurozone practically every financial analyst things that greece will live to be an orderly. withdrawal from the euro anything
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else would be disaster the official mantra remains new don't want to fear we must do everything so the greeks are able to stay in the euro zone. and that was once again the united stance is this camp david summit wrapped up but plan b. is already in place officials in brussels have a back up just in case and germany has been hinting a referendum on a euro exit could be greece's best bet leading some to believe the smiles and handshakes are just damage control this is just trying to put it put a pretty face on it is hoped in is so when the markets open monday they can have some good news to report but the media are more concerned with who was not at camp david then what was president putin says he's busy with his cabinet this weekend others think he's steamed over the street protests lots of speculation as to why putin skipped this today but very little based on logic president putin couldn't
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really contribute anything. to a solution he could say right you have to solve your debt problem germany perhaps shouldn't extend more danger to other weak members of the european union and so on but basically he'd be a bystander not the case for obama who in an election year can't afford to let euro zone fall out worsen the u.s. economy russia sees this summit as a stop on the way to do twenty or putin and obama will sit down with for the g. twenty it focuses on a wider range of issues much more pressing to countries like russia and china who seek to have greater expectations from the broader format especially when it comes to financial turmoil and making sure all global issues make the cut reporting from the g. eight at camp david and he said no way r.t. or daily or disorderly the many analysts who believe greece a will differ. are not trying to predict how events will unfold later we are. any
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comics writer for the guardian newspaper what he sees next for athens his interview coming your way in about twenty minutes time here's a quick look. we've been modeling what a greek exit from the euro zone would look like for the best part of a year politically and economically politically even those who are in favor of greece leave so. they would accept that it would involve being. there it would mean trying to. yank him not be working it would mean that people stop for me become specially with this the bureau's in their back pocket because the country that they need to stop capital come and to maintain a very high level move so it would be affecting like a country with more. question all in the saudis really for the rest of the euro zone if the euro zone can say to threaten the markets look greece is leaving but we
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all know greece is a special case you know behind i would say it's a bit of a basket case and actually its problems are not the rest of the euro zone that's what they really mean by an orderly exit if they can convince everyone that greece is leaving because of greece not because of the euro i don't think the markets would buy that. from kate david some world leaders are moving into chicago where the nato summit will start later on sunday and tensions are running high in the city with thousands of protesters flooding the city center to rally against the blocks a costly and deadly wars are dishonest at sea and should a killer who followed the march now joins us live hello to you as to see take us through what's been happening on the streets of chicago we're getting reports of violence they. definitely throughout the ask. well of
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days we have seen groups of protesters taking to the streets of chicago different actions taking place today was a preview of what many say should be expected on sunday where the biggest marches to is to take place here in chicago we've seen about a thousand protesters walk the streets of the city they were chanting there were in fact clashes with police police took out with tons we are hearing that one activist was run over by a police van we saw a woman protester with her face bleeding definitely clashes we've seen some of the police use their bicycles to try to scare away the protesters of getting closer there have been no a tear gas used as far as we know it's definitely gotten quite violent here on the ground right now the situation seems to have calmed down a lot so it was quite an intense several hours of marching and protesting and at least a thousand people walking through the city hundreds of police officers everywhere
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everybody is now on very high alert expecting what will happen on sunday some are saying as many as ten thousand people will be joining the protests throughout the day. now tell us a little bit about why the occupy activists have now shifted to face because to this nato summit what exactly are they angry about and what do they hope to achieve . it's definitely it's occupy activists but also protesters who are not part of any movement people coming out on the streets of all walks of life to protest the nato summit taking place they disagree with the policies being implemented by the u.s. government and nato when it comes to of ghana stand in the words that the united states is fighting the protesters believe that money could be could be put to much better use especially in difficult economic situation in the united states the occupy wall street movement of the occupy chicago movement movement and all the other occupiers who've come into chicago to protest in these actions have been
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protesting income inequality and this is something that's largely been addressed they're protesting against capitalism this is a very loud cheer that we heard today but unfortunately whether or not this message of the protesters is going to be heard by the leaders inside the convention center is a big question because all of these crowds are being kept quite far away from when the leaders from where the leaders are gathering well thank you very much the the us to see life well from chicago of course so we'll keep you updated on events in chicago throughout the day plus later today we look closely at the ngo rock in the u.s. as we examine the timeline of the occupy movement and a special report. i. think that we have to begin to identify those who've. been. pushed.
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just. as i keep our people similar. to that bunch of losers but i have a very good job people have jobs here that's all nonsense jobs are losers. i. believe. at least nine people have been killed and another one hundred injured in a suicide bombing in eastern syria the latest in a series of blasts in recent months targeting security hubs damascus claims it's being attacked by terrorists alliance comprised of al qaida and elements backed by regional powers and as sara first reports from syria there's a growing sense that
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a third force is creeping into the civil conflict with its own terrifying agenda. it was a little known terror group the al nusra front they claimed responsibility for last week's massive building in syria last carried out in a busy residential area designed to cause maximum damage damascus which the so long had been through and then sheltered from the conflict throughout the rest of the country that's in recent months found itself the target of an increased bombing campaign this latest explosion considered the largest one and you can just see the devastation that schools. do that. back at the scene angry crowds to quiet them as terrorist acts shouting blame at saudi arabia and qatar it's plain that many analysts are saying these countries actions are undermining the peace process if you. stop but the supporting of united
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states of america and saudi arabia supporting guns to the. everything will be finished within two months but if they want to continue supporting them they want to be in the region chatting amongst the rubble as people show us the ruins of their homes and what is one of damascus is poorest neighborhoods there's a real sense of a revolution spinning out of control was there is uprising began as a peaceful pro-democracy movement that has splintered into a confusing mix in various groups political a nonpolitical. and the continued instability here left the country wide open to attacks like this taking place. it's a plot problem it's a dilemma for the syrians that their policy a very easy provided the chance for everyone to in the world
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to interfere and this you know. either by providing arms providing funds providing fighters and soldiers. and troops as people are left to bury their dead and with the hospitals full the syrian people are once again trying to rebuild their homes and their lives and the focus has once again turned the on going peace mission which is looking more wolf by the day a wall is now in place around the blast site stark reminder that terror has served only as yet another barrier to peace here. surface. still ahead in the program london sees approach has of policing itself thousands of officers joined the rallies a furious over massive job losses and salary cuts also. we need a holocaust survivor they kept a story secret for seventeen yes i guess
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a backdrop of israeli palestinian violence. and there's concern of further violent unrest in another country sucked into the arab spring bahrain this week the u.s. announces a resuming arms sales to the country despite warnings that the weapons could be used likings n.-t. regime protestors and as artie's guy and their chief she can explain the move demonstrates washington's selective approach to popular uprisings in different parts of the region. amid bahrain's persistent crackdown on protesters journalists and human rights activists are in washington welcomes bahrain's crown prince. of the united. and pledges to resume arms supplies to a key ally in the gulf. the us had suspended weapon sales to bahrain in the light of massive human rights violations by these stories there but now the state
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department has issued a statement saying that american weapons will soon be heading. bahrain again. we've made this decision i want to emphasize on national security grounds we've made this decision mindful of the fact that there remain a number of serious unresolved human rights issues in bahrain which we expect the government of bahrain to address bahrain host the u.s. fifth fleet is around forty ships two aircraft carriers sixteen thousand personnel and major force in the gulf region clyde prestowitz a top economist in the reagan and clinton administrations argues the us has traded principles for military bases that are worth the ruling certainly. a regime because of the base of the of the fifth fleet. in the gulf. and so yeah i mean i think we compromised in the same statement announcing the resumption of arms supplies to bahrain washington calls for the country's
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opposition to show restraint. we concerned by what has now become almost daily street violence and we are in this context bahrain's political opposition to call for an end to the violence against police that's a stark difference from the u.s. approach towards other countries in the region engulfed in anti-government protests where the u.s. has tacitly or openly encouraged violence against government forces in libya the united states was openly supporting it was open openly supporting the libyan rebels and their acts against the state even though this was. an art in the situation that now was the doing proper board and and then syria similarly there has been no and there were only four or restrain from by wants by the opposition forces there so it's a little bit are you there's only in bahrain it's a highly asymmetrical about a situation it's not
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a case in which. in which there's enormous violence of work by the protesters against the police forces it's clearly by the far right extended against the civilians the general perception is that the u.s. doesn't want to rock the boat in bahrain because of its fifth fleet there so it's a case of eyes wide shot that human rights violations it might seem like a normal trade off in the walls of politics but critics say it makes a mockery of america claiming the high moral ground in other countries in the arab walled where political unrest wages company check out reporting from washington r.t. . the resumption of arms sales to bahrain was followed by another controversial announcement that triggered mass protests in the country in bahrain during family and saudi arabia want to form a union the plan despite being put on hold for now was denounced by protesters as an attempt to. at the next ation the proposed deal also sparked outrage across iran which some experts say has good cause for alarm bahrain's government is
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enthusiastic for the very reason that the bahraini people are an enthusiastic because it's going to legitimize and systematize the saudi involvement in crushing the bahraini revolution drowning the bahraini revolution in in blood seventy percent of the population are sheer and increasingly actually systematically excluded from any positions of influence power effectively disenfranchised always have been in this regime and you know we have to ask why what's in it for saudi arabia and answering that is crucial to remember saudi arabia doesn't have an independent foreign policy never has done its foreign policy like those of the other gulf states is formulated in washington and london so we really have to ask why the colonial powers britain and france and of course now the u.s. why are they pursuing this course and i think we have to understand this in terms of the preparations which of been under way for several years now for an aerial strike against iran which is still on the on the table the crushing of the bahraini
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resistance is crucial to the war plans against iran because it was the biggest deterrent to an attack on iran is of course the fear amongst the west the elites in israel that actually the sheer population in other countries will rise up. and start to resist that attack on iran so actually what's the crushing of the bahraini revolution is all to do with trying to preemptively destroy any potential resistance to the coming attack on iran well many fear unity with saudi arabia would mean an end to bahrain's democratic aspirations some initiatives of the saudis at home have already approved those critics right as you'll find on our website known to english as saudi arabia bans of the language calling it unnecessary practice discover the deed. that r t dot com. class that twenty thousand mars are through the streets of frankfurt in the late as wave of occupy rage sweeping europe we've got the latest footage and pictures from the heart of
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the protest online. this week we saw a game of cat and mouse play out in moscow between opposition activists and police as several protest camps continued to spring up in the center of the capital only to be later be evicted by officers a city called on tuesday rule to support a lawsuit from local residents vic the activist who had been sitting out in the area for a few days police moved in after protests refused to leave detaining over twenty people several dozen activists have been moved to other locations setting up new camps which will also broken up after locals complained the camps were adopted by the opposition movement in moscow following that immutability his inauguration as president on may the seventh there are one hundred permanent activists who pledged
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to continue this protest indefinitely. over thirty thousand u.k. police officers took to the streets to protest against salary cuts and job losses i mean the grip of the u.k.'s austerity squeeze. looks at the plight of the british poppy. a protest policing itself is a rare sight especially one this big that's because these protesters are the police thirty five thousand officers from across england and wales demonstrating against government cuts they call criminal never before so many bodies on one beat the problem is never again these black caps represent the number of police officers who lose their jobs in the carts sixteen thousand over the. next four years cuts they say that could seriously threaten that public safety it will have an impact on public safety not just that it is
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a section of the police it is people will see if you will this is on the street and at the end of the day people see place to place emphasis on the street they feel safe bitingly a presence and that's just not going to happen in egypt it was known as the backs to the police force in the wilderness and with these kansas city it will continue like that the police will be hit hard by government desperate to get more for less over five thousand officers have already been booted off frontline policing in the past year alone police pay and pensions will also be slashed in a sweeping twenty percent cuts the thin blue lines about to get much thinner we will be able to provide a service that it's efficient is a typical moment and as a result i will feel as if. it almost it is considered to be able to provide service for them simply because a director is always will be said he will support it's not just police probation officers are up for the chopper too the government wants to replace them with
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machines expected to look like this removing yet another barrier protecting the public they're supposed to stop criminals reoffending with nothing but a series of yes no questions they'll be trialed first in parts of london but without a lie detector these machines aren't exactly the spanish inquisition to nonsense to suggest that a machine could do the job of human being there's a real likelihood in danger that public protection in britain will be compromised if these machines are rolled up nationally. deviant behavior deterioration behavior will be missed and most people will go and commit serious crimes against the public the government insists the machines to cut costs stating this is a misrepresentation the london probation trust is invested. a range of a knowledge of approaches to law professionals to cut bureaucracy and spend their time more effectively with the youth and as they supervise public protection will
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always be our priority not according to those charged with that role it's been four years since police officers last marched on through london the next time sure to be sooner than that if the government continues its squeeze on the bennett r.t. london. let's have a look at some other news making headlines around the world a five point nine earthquake has struck next to the tell you city of polonium there no reports of injuries all significant damage yet the tremor initially registered six point three in the same magnitude as a deadly quake that hit a liquid three years ago killing almost three hundred people. blind chinese dissident chen guangcheng who was recently allowed to leave the country has landed in new york the human rights activist became a key figure in only a month long u.s. chinese diplomatic tussle last month he escaped house arrest and took refuge in the u.s. embassy during hillary clinton's office a visit to china. clashes between israeli forces and palestinian demonstrators
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erupted jury the end will not or catastrophe day march in the west bank there really remembers the hundreds of thousands displaced after the creation of the state of israel in one nine hundred forty eight policia has a story of one woman who survived another war and kept a secret during the decades of these really palestinian conflict. for seven decades hid her secret only now has this muslim mother of seven and grandmother of twenty nine revealed to her family the full truth about her past. i didn't want my children to be afraid for me and be part of my grief we're here all the time in a war between jew and arab so why tell them about another war that other war was in one nine hundred forty two parents were among the millions of jews rounded up. across europe and soon to all should stay at a camp by the nazis layla's mother was eight months pregnant with her at the time or they are part of a g.
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again i was born in auschwitz i was a jew i spent three years in auschwitz and i survived only because a christian doctor in the camp me and my two brothers under the floor in his house my mother and father worked for him and at night they would crawl in with us and give us dry bread soaked in hot water with salt so when they are medicine macquarie . fields fear when she hears a loud knocking at the door i think they're coming to kill me i remember the bones the bodies legs hands the people this barbed wire fence i remember terrible beatings in the camp i cry a lot when i cry my heart is calm. after she was freed from the camp immigrated to israel when she was sixteen she met her husband a local arab man. i was working. in she brought me something to drink. decided to get married it did not matter to me that she was jewish. but
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had mattered to his family her father didn't speak to her for a year and most of her israeli jewish cousins have disowned a young couple moved here to. an arab village in northern israel layla converted to islam she says so that her children would not have to serve in the israeli army and to now they knew their mother had been through it but they didn't know she'd been a holocaust survivor. i did not betray the jewish people i don't hate jews i definitely not really any converted for my children i feel completely accepted here if i hear someone say they hate jews i answer them and say you receive right from this country why hate the people who give them to you. now after seventy years his secret has finally come out clearly where. to collect a pension money and the clark made the connection and that that's where we were shocked we didn't know what to say but it was so difficult to hear that we opened
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our mouths and nothing came out of i think god she survived. his jewish name is leah the shufti but she hasn't really athens all those years ago when she arrived in israel as a refugee just months before the state of israel was declared him a nine hundred forty eight a date is really celebrate but one that palestinians mourn is the nakba or catastrophe the displacement of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors in addition i'm not happy or sad on this day i understand how israelis feel and i understand how arabs feel and i feel both a lot of people have died for nothing the jewish mother and the muslim mother feel the same painting and it's their pain that palestinians around the world remember today policia r.t. omar for israel. i'll be back with a reminder of our top stories in just a couple of minutes stay with us.
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it was. just so. it's. safe. to eat. meat. meat more news today violence is once again flared up if these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada from showing up for a shelter all of that says.

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